1784 HENDY, James
A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: Proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15741
1855 WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
Elephantiasis orientalis, and especially elephantiasis genitalis in Bengal.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10987
1856 ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA, (Ἀρεταῖος Καππάδοκος) (80 – 140); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
GMN 22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8934
1863 DEMARQUAY, Jean Nicolas (1811 – 1875)
Note sur une tumeur des bourses contenant un liquide laiteux (galactocèle de Vidal) et renfermant de petits êtres vermiformes que l’on peut considérer comme les helminthes hèmatoïdes à l’étatd’embryon.
Description of the embryonic stage of Wuchereria bancrofti in hydrocele fluid.
GMN 5344.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6770
1868 WUCHERER, Otto Eduard Heinrich (1820 – 1873)
Noticiar preliminar sobre vermes de uma especie ainda nao descripta, encontrados na urina de doentes de hematuria intertropical no Brazil.
In 1866 Wucherer saw the embryo form of the filaria worm. Later the name Wuchereria bancrofti was applied to it. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5344.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6781
1877 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
Further observations on Filaria sanguinis hominis.
Manson showed that Wuchereria bancrofti, the cause of filarial elephantiasis in man, develops in, and is transmitted by, the Culex mosquito. This was the first proof that infective diseases are spread by animal vector…
GMN 5345.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6800
1877 LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
Filiaria sanguinis hominis - mature form.
Lewis made the critical connection/association of the worm, Filaria sanguinis,(Wuchereria bancrofti ) to Elephantiasis. This brief account appears to be a third person account summarizing Lewis's work written by an ed…
GMN 10787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12983
1885 ESMARCH, Johann Friedrich August von (1823 – 1908); KULENKAMPFF, Diedrich (1846 – )
Die elephantiastischen Formen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden.
This atlas illustrates the various changes that occur under the collective term elephantiasis, including tumors of the blood and lymphatic vessels, fibromas, neuromas, papillomas. Goldschmid 258.
GMN 9544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11730
1898 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
Tropical diseases.
Manson has been called the “father of modern tropical medicine”. He had vast experience of disease in the Tropics and himself made many valuable contributions to the knowledge of this subject. He described tinea nigra…
GMN 2266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2823
1933 STANNUS, Hugh Stannus (1877 – 1957)
A sixth venereal disease. Climatic bubo, lymphogranuloma inguinale, esthioméne, chronic ulcer and elephantiasis of the genito-ano-rectal region, inflammatory stricture of the rectum.
In this exhaustive review of the literature, Stannus considered all the conditions he discussed to be different manifestations of infection by the same organisms – the agent causing lymphogranuloma venereum. Includes …
GMN 5221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7838
1954 –1960 IYENGAR, Mandayam Osuri Tirunarayana (1895 – 1963)
Annotated bibliography of filariasis and elephantiasis. 5 parts.
South Pacific Commission Technical Papers, Nos. 65, 88, 109 (and Supplement), 124, and 160.
GMN 5352.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6921
2005 TAYLOR, Mark J.; MAKUNDE, Williams Holmes; MCGARRY, Helen F.; ET AL
Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…
GMN 11193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13390
